THAT'S CAMERON JUSTICE FOR THE ELITE WHO CAN EFFORT 100,000 DOLLAR ATTORNEY...GOT AWAY WITH MURDER!!! AGAIN....IN CAMERON COUNTY??? IF YOU HAVE MONEY JUST COME TO CAMERON COUNTY IF YOU WANT SOME BODY DEAD???

State law states that one must stop and render aid, No? She failed to stop and render aid, SO? Not guilty? How does the prosecuting attorney defend his loss? So, if I hit someone, I can go home, takea bath, eat supper, get my lawyer to go with me to the scene and look for what I hit. If I don't find it, it is OK. Even when we hit a dog, we need to stop, whether or not you know what you hit. Hit and run is hit and run and no in-betweens. I guess Perry Mason (EG) must have been the lawyer for The Case of the Hit and Run Mother. Mr. Burger is not doing his job, so Perry beats him all the time. Que lastima!

No one is going to resign; just another day in Cameron County justice. The Sheriff and his stooges (the Reyna brothers) will protect their own and the DA will take no action because he seeks Omar Lucio's political support, and the citizens of Cameron County will not demand action for this incredible failure to control evidence. So, a lady is dead and the person who caused her death and failed to render aid and left the scene of the accident....goes free.

Justice is a very subjective concept. Most often it means things did or did not come out the way you wanted. If the DA can't prove the elements of the crime to a jury of her peers, she must be found not guilty. The way the police screwed this up, it would have been unjust to find her guilty.

The subjective nature of justice aside, this level of professional incompetence on behalf of the police, should not be tolerated and pink slips should be handed out to those responsible.

I hate to say it, but after 60 years in Brownsville and Cameron County I have come to expect corruption and incompetence from out public official and public servants. Even though I am one of the detested gringos, I non-the-less remain committed to this part of the world and it's people. The people deserve better, far better.

Marisa Govea NOT GUILTY verdict... We may agree or not, but we were not on the jury. And, we are a nation of laws that does not allow us to undermine the jury even if we disagree.

The defense attorneys did their job and the state prosecutors did not convince the jury.

If any blame can be cast is the failure to preserve the tape, which would prove beyond doubt if Govea stopped or not. But, if Govea did not stop, KARMA has a way of doling justice. A good example is the O.J. Simpson not guilty verdict, in which a lot of us believed justice was not served. Justice caught up with O.J. and he still went to prison and other bad things have happened to O.J., because I believe God has a way of settling the score. So, let's accept the verdict with Govea knowing the absolute truth of what happened that night Mary Tipton was killed. If Govea cheated justice, be assured justice will be served in due time.

Every last one of you that worked this case had the blood of Mary Tipton on your hands. You people are on here defending a person who broke the fucking law along with her Worthless piece of SHIT Deputy Son! I hope all guilty parties root in hell!! I hope that each one of you who helped to cover this up has a family member suffer the same fate as Mary Tipton!! Then you will have received a big dose of KARMA!! FUCKING MORONS!!

An accident happened. I doubt anyone thinks she meant to run over Tipton. The crime was not the accident, it was fleeing the accident and failing to render aid. Clearly, the Brownsville police department was extending courtesy to the mother of a fellow law enforcement officer when the did the initial response to the report and failed even to have a face to face contact with the car's driver. This was poor police work and a courtesy that would never be extended to me and most of the people in this community and there should be a consequence to the officer who failed in his duty. I don't attribute other motives to this officer. But then we come to the investigating detective who mismanages the evidence and enables the defense to claim that, in fact, they did seek to render aid. That video recording would certainly have established the facts if it had only been left intact. So, was the act by the investigating officer part of a conspiracy (or even a solo act) to rig the case in a way that offered at least a little bit of deniability? Did he fail to copy the recording and then allow it to be destroyed to enable the defense? Of course, it made him look incompetent but he was, apparently, ready to retire anyway. Was it judged he could fall on his sword and take the hit as a bad investigator with the least damage to his career and income? And another thing-- they must have big skunks out on 803 if one can dent the front of a car and crack the windshield. And seemingly do it without stinking the car up. And if you thought you hit a skunk, why would you go look for it? Lastly, who was she on the phone with when the accident happened? Did that come out in the trial? Did she make some outcry like "Damn, I just hit a skunk" or comment that she had hit anything at all? I did not see any reporting on that but it seems like it would matter.

SAD!!! Yet Luis Saenz' office insist on taking poorly investigated, lack of evidence or flat out lying allegations against defendants and just keep their fingers crossed or hope that these defendants take pleas. This office is about as bad in defectors as immigrants from Mexico! Luis, you need to put a rein on your lack of experience prosecutors and move those cases. You got our retirement, so don't sweat on your prosecutors "thinking" that they're doing the right thing!